elysdir, The Victorian Queer Archive, “a digital archive that contains Victorian texts on LGBTQ themes.”
https://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/about
For example, here’s a poem, “The World Well Lost XVIII,” by Marc-André Raffalovich, 1886.
https://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/items/show/60
(“As Robert Browning observed, Raffalovich's poems often erase the sex of the object of desire, thereby encouraging same-sex readings” —from http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/raffalovich_ma_A.pdf)
(See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-André_Raffalovich)
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